{
  "status": "Navigation definitions represented in active eligible cases; not the frozen study codebook or a validated taxonomy",
  "historical_codebook": "/research/audit/data/pattern-codebook.json",
  "patterns": [
    {
      "id": "P01",
      "name": "Investigate needs through inquiry",
      "contract": "Uncertain needs or situation → questions, responses, and a progressively clarified account",
      "inclusion": "Purposeful elicitation from people or stakeholders, with unresolved questions guiding further inquiry",
      "exclusion": "Merely retrieving existing documents or running a diagnostic repair"
    },
    {
      "id": "P02",
      "name": "Assemble grounded evidence",
      "contract": "Distributed source material → traceable retrieval, synthesis, or a decision-ready evidence packet",
      "inclusion": "Organize existing evidence and preserve its relation to claims or questions",
      "exclusion": "Generating unsupported content or making the authoritative decision itself"
    },
    {
      "id": "P03",
      "name": "Draft and adapt a constrained artifact",
      "contract": "A brief, source, or existing artifact → a usable draft or adaptation meeting explicit audience, format, or content constraints",
      "inclusion": "Produce or transform a deliverable; quality checks may be automated or human",
      "exclusion": "Treating the resulting artifact as approved simply because it was generated"
    },
    {
      "id": "P04",
      "name": "Triage and route incoming work",
      "contract": "Incoming item → clarified category, priority, eligibility, or accountable destination",
      "inclusion": "Determine handling path and resolve missing intake context",
      "exclusion": "Downstream investigation or final substantive approval"
    },
    {
      "id": "P05",
      "name": "Reconcile claims and records",
      "contract": "Claim or record plus reference evidence → checked agreement, discrepancies, and a substantiated correction or certification",
      "inclusion": "Check factual or accounting correspondence against independent reference material",
      "exclusion": "Generic stylistic review, forecasting, or diagnosis without a reference comparison"
    },
    {
      "id": "P06",
      "name": "Diagnose and resolve an exception",
      "contract": "Unexpected failure, anomaly, or complaint → investigated explanation and a bounded remedy or recovery path",
      "inclusion": "Inspect evidence, distinguish causes or explanations, then prepare or attempt resolution",
      "exclusion": "Routine intake routing or speculative future risk"
    },
    {
      "id": "P07",
      "name": "Compare options for a decision",
      "contract": "Options and contextual criteria → reasoned ranking, recommendation, or recorded authorized choice",
      "inclusion": "Make criteria, tradeoffs, evidence, and decision authority explicit as available",
      "exclusion": "Ranking without purpose or treating advice as authority"
    },
    {
      "id": "P08",
      "name": "Anticipate risks and plan mitigations",
      "contract": "Proposed activity, dependencies, or disclosed risk → identified hazards and specific mitigation plans",
      "inclusion": "Prospective risk analysis, mitigation assignment, and review",
      "exclusion": "A current incident investigation alone or a generic approval gate"
    },
    {
      "id": "P09",
      "name": "Test alternatives and learn",
      "contract": "Hypotheses or alternatives → deliberate test, observed results, and updated selection or next action",
      "inclusion": "Explicitly gather new evidence through a test or structured learning cycle",
      "exclusion": "Ungrounded critique, passive monitoring, or a theory diagram without a test"
    },
    {
      "id": "P10",
      "name": "Coordinate commitments to closure",
      "contract": "An objective involving people or teams → accountable next actions, handoffs, tracking, and agreed closure",
      "inclusion": "Maintain ownership, timing, unresolved work, and completion conditions",
      "exclusion": "A one-time routing decision without subsequent coordination"
    },
    {
      "id": "P11",
      "name": "Roll out a controlled change",
      "contract": "Existing operational state → coordinated transition that manages affected parties, dependencies, and verification",
      "inclusion": "Migration, retirement, or distributed changes with explicit continuity or consistency concerns",
      "exclusion": "Any ordinary edit, or indefinitely preserving a restricted state without a change rollout"
    }
  ]
}